{"id":1475,"date":"2009-08-28T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2009-08-28T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:48:27","slug":"victoria-city-council-passes-bylaw-to-borrow-63million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/08\/28\/victoria-city-council-passes-bylaw-to-borrow-63million\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria City Council passes bylaw to borrow $63million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took them less than 5 minutes to pass 3 &#8220;readings&#8221; of a bylaw to borrow $63million &#8211; and this was done at nearly 1 a.m., with no press, no media in Council Chambers at the time. The only people there was a little band of die-hard policy watchers (including me).<\/p>\n<p>I shot a video with my pocket camera. The visual quality is quite poor, but the audio is good. The dissenting\/ questioning councilor is Geoffrey Young. Dean Fortin is in the mayor&#8217;s chair.<\/p>\n<p>The video is available for viewing on <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/IULypuUShAmsWIA7fzsG8g?feat=directlink\">Picasa here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 14 1\/2 minutes long, which makes it too long for Youtube right now. Will figure out how to get it on YT later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took them less than 5 minutes to pass 3 &#8220;readings&#8221; of a bylaw to borrow $63million &#8211; and this was done at nearly 1 a.m., with no press, no media in Council Chambers at the time. The only people there was a little band of die-hard policy watchers (including me). I shot a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6171,1418],"tags":[13156],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-johnson-street-bridge","category-victoria","tag-borrowing_bylaw"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}